Fastening-clip.



C. G. BARNES.

FASTENING CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED 00w. 9. 1911,

1,068,837. Pa ented Ju1y29, 1913.

device in use.

CARL C. BARNES, OF MENA, ARKANSAS.

FASTENING-CLIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 29, 1913.

Application filed October 9, 1911. Serial No. 653,708.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CARL C. BARNES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mona, in the county of Polk and State of Arkansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastening-Clips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fastening clips, and has for its leading object the provision of an improved form of fastening clip adapted for use either as a clothes pin or for use in securing together loose sheets of paper.

The further object of my invention is the provision of an improved clip of this char acter comprising two pivotally connected parts which may be readily swung into engagement with the article to be secured thereby and which shall be provided with integral means for resiliently locking the two parts in engagement with the said article.

Another object of my invention is the provision of an improved form of clip having integral resilient locking means for securing the clip in engaging position.

Other objects and advantages of my improved fastening clip will be readily apparent by reference to the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and it will be understood that I may make any modifications in the specific structure shown and described within the scope of my claim without departing from or exceeding the spirit of the invention.

' Figure 1 represents a plan view of my Fig. 2 represents a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 represents a plan. view of my device in open position, and Fig. 4 represents a view of the clip with the engaging jaws thereof in adjusted position illustrating the spring movement of the resilient arm of the clip for looking or unlocking the jaws in position to resiliently hold an article therebetween.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the longer side member of the main clip, said member 1 having formed at one end the eye or loop 2 and having at its other end the arm 3 bent to extend in the opposite direction from the eye 2, said loop 3 terminating in a portion 1 extending parallel to the arm 1, the other end of the portion 4 being connected by the cross piece 5 with the main arm 1 intermediate the length thereof, the cross piece 5 having its end 6 twisted around the arm 1. li-otatably engaged upon the said cross piece 5 is the eye 7 formed on the end of the arm 8 of the supplemental clip member, said arm 8 terminating in a cross piece 9 designed to be disposed parallel with the portion 3 of the main clip but the arm 8 being preferably of slightly less length than the arm 1 of the main clip to permit of the swinging of the portion 9 above the portion 3 of the main clip. Said portion 9 terminates in the upwardly extending longer arm 10 of the supplemental clip, said arm 10 having formed intermediately therein the coil 11 pivot-ally wound on the cross bar 5 and the arm 10 terminates at its upper end in an eye 12 which is bent to lie at right angles to the arm 10.

It will thus be seen that my complete device comprises two pieces of wire which are pivotally connected together and which may be readilyswung with respect to each other. In the use of my improved clip, I preferably swing the two rectangular frames formed respectively by the portions 1, 3 and 1 and the portions 8, 9 and 10 to engage paper or clothes to be held in position by my improved clip, and I then press the arm 10 inward, the eye 11 sliding across the cross bar 5 until the outer portion of the eye 12 is disposed inwardly of the arm 1. When the parts are in this position I then spring the arm 10 to cause the eye 12 to continue to move in the same direction in which it was moved as the engaging pore tions or rectangular frames of the two clip members were swung into engagement with the articles until the said eye 12 lies on the opposite side of the arm 1 from that on which it was originally disposed. I then release the arm 10 and the resiliency of the bend 13 at the point of intersection of the portions 9 and 10 will cause the arm 10 to swing outward and will cause the eye 12 to rest against the eye portion 2 of the arm 1 to hold the two rectangular jaw frames of the clipin engagement with the article, the coil 11 causing the said rectangular frames to be resiliently held against the article.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and use of my improved clip will be readily apparent, and it will be seen that I have provided a simple,

inexpensive and durable device in which the jaws of the clip may be readily placed in engagement with an article and in which the inherent resiliency supplemented by the re siliency of the coil 11 will permit of the springing of the arms 1 and 10 to cause the upper projecting portions thereof to interlock and thus to yieldingly hold the jaw portions of the clip in engagement with an article.

I claim:

A clip comprising a main member formed into a rectangular wire frame having one of its sides extended and terminating in an eye which extends outwardly from said frame, a supplemental U-shaped wire member having loops formed at each end and rotatably engaged on one of the ends of the when the supplemental member is swung,-

and the eye carried by the U-shaped member engages with the eye carried by the extended side of the first named frame.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CARL C. BARNES.-

Witnesses r W. L. QUINN, ROY C. FERGUSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. v 

